This article presents an analytic approach to assessing the relationship between policy advocacy activities and outcomes for discrete episodes of advocacy, using a holistic array of factors that affect the relationship between advocacy and policy change. The factors pertain to not only advocacy organizational structure and strategies, but also the policy environment, the policy issue and available options to address it, and technical assistance that advocates receive. By focusing on the entire context in which advocates operate, this approach can be used to assess both advocacy campaign strategies and the broader contextual factors that contribute to advocacy outcomes. The array of factors also facilitates analytic generalizability across advocacy episodes, as evaluators can compare the role of similar factors across advocacy efforts. This analytic approach is illustrated by its application to a multiple case study evaluation of Voices for Healthy Kids.

本文提出了一种分析方法来评估政策倡导活动与离散倡导事件之间的关系，使用影响倡导与政策变化之间关系的一系列整体因素。这些因素不仅涉及倡导组织结构和战略，还涉及政策环境、政策问题和解决该问题的可用选项，以及倡导者获得的技术援助。通过关注倡导者运作的整个背景，这种方法可用于评估倡导运动策略和有助于倡导结果的更广泛的背景因素。一系列因素还促进了倡导事件的分析概括性，因为评估人员可以比较相似因素在倡导工作中的作用。